Cheating Cheaters and the Suspicion Thereof

If Team Apple accuses Team Berry of cheating, you should take the allegation with a grain of salt, but always in good faith. Ask for specifics about why they are concerned, and then determine the best way to bring it up with Team Berry. If prizes have already been handed out, you'll have to keep an eye on them next time they're in.

If you think a team might be cheating, be straightforward about talking to the team about it. One of the upshots of doing table touches is that you make yourself known on the floor, can look over their shoulders, and can ask people about their team name, and ask, "wow, how did you know that?" Stay curious over suspicious. 

To be clear: a perfect score is not, in an of itself, grounds for suspicion.

All of our questions are gettable, and some people are really smart and really good at trivia! That's, like, the whole point of Jeopardy! And, not for nothing, many of our players are into the same shows and Reddit threads that our Editorial team is!

However, a team might have just one bad actor (even unbeknownst to the team). Hosts can restrict the app to one device per team, and police phone usage more strictly — some hosts have even asked teams to leave their phones behind if they go to the bathroom!  

Hosts can also reiterate on the mic the "Use your noodle, not your Google" policy, and make comments about the sad and pitiable people who would stoop to looking up the largest lake in Europe to maybe get one free beer.